Following remarks outlining successful results from the Federal Fraud Taskforce initiative, President Trump took questions from the assembled press pool. WATCH:
President Trump noted the federal government savings from fraud prevention will help stop the spending deficit within the federal budget. The scale of fraud is substantial and efforts to prosecute those who take advantage of federal subsidy programs is having a great deal of success.
President Trump also answered questions about Ukraine, Russia, NATO, European mass migration from third-world countries, the riots in France and more.
Posted in Big Government, Cultural Marxism, Culture, Donald Trump, Economy, Election 2026, European Union, media bias, NATO, President Trump, Press Secretary - Trump, Uncategorized, United Kingdom (UK) and Great Britain
Take out the fraud from Congress, illegals, and third world wage suppressing “migrants” and we have a huge budget surplus and massive tax cuts.
I think that is what he said.
By the way – everyone going to the Rally tonight remember – Be part of the Secret Service – Be scanning the Venue – And be bold and not shy about stopping suspicious activity!
Look out for butch-haired womyn with huge glasses.
++5 for “wormyn”!!
And purple hair!
Nobody’s left then….
Fraud via CONgress.
Fraud via Judiciary.
Trillions at stake.
Choose your side.
What does it matter if the CIA is running things anyway?
So the $1.8 Trillion per year federal deficit would swing to a ‘huge budget surplus and massive tax cuts’?
By “taking out” the ‘fraud from Congress, illegals, and third world wage suppressing “migrants” ‘?
How, exactly, would that work?
The top estimate of federal spending fraud is about $500B as of 2024, or about 7% of the total budget.
(https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-109093/index.html).
If fraud were completely eliminated, the $500B reduction in spending would still leave over $1.3 Trillion in deficit spending with current budgets.
But keep in mind, that deficit will continue to grow nonetheless, because of rising interest rates increasing the costs of government debt, and because Trump and Congress are working together to increase the overspending as much as possible – as part of an apparent Plan to sink the US.
This is another red herring by the US government under the current regime. Like the combination red herring and trojan horse DOGE, associated with a total 11% reduction in the federal workforce – that’s less than 0.5% of the federal budget, amounting to nothing more than rounding error.
Pres Trump invites up members of the task force
“Look at them … young, good-looking people …
I hate young, good-looking people”
LOL
Media manipulation of Trump’s quote “I hate young, good-looking people” showing only part of it in 3, 2, 1….
Stoping the fraud will only happen if we win back both houses and increase our majority. Make sure your family and friends vote republican.
Vote sanity, not inhumanity!!
I have & will continue to harass my relatives to go & vote BUT let’s not pretend. RepubliCONs are addicted to CRs & unwilling to cut even $1 in fraudulent spending.
I harass my relatives to protect a majority knowing it will accomplish nothing except saving PDJT & us + the gains he has made on his own… from islamo-commies for another 2 years.
SoldiersMom, the time to vote out RepubliCONs and RINOS is during the primaries. Each election we need to chip away at these RINO’s in the primaries. We can vote some out every primary election. Once the primaries are over, we have to vote republican in the General Election. 2 years later we hit the RINO’s in the primary again.
I am puzzled as to how the American primary system works.
I believe there is a criminal in a New York gaol who is not due for release for several years, and yet he is running for a seat in Alaska.
He got 4% in a primary and due to their Proportional Representation system mi9s not in the bigt election
Now in the ‘big’ election
Patrick, you sound like an immigrant from the Old Sod. My grandfather was a native of County Mayo in Ireland. (The spelling of jail gives you away. I saw Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin where our patriots were murdered by the Brits.)
Here’s a thumbnail explanation.
You can be a felon and an elected official in America unless there are laws in your state or federal laws governing certain jobs that forbid you as a felon from holding that office. Since America is made up of 50 states with 50 different sets of laws, there are a lot of loopholes.
Now for some examples:
Mayor James Curley of Boston (D) did a five-month sentence for mail fraud during his last term as mayor in the 1940s. On his release, he was greeted by a celebration staged by his political machine. Rival Irish-American politicians took him down at the polls.
Governor Lenwood Small (R) of Illinois was so corrupt and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI were so corrupt and incompetent in the 1920s that President Herbert Hoover (R) decided to take down Al Capone using the Treasury Dept. Eliot Ness, Frank Wilson, and Mysterious Mike Malone were the T-Men who took down Capone by raiding his booze operation, saving a lot of trafficked girls and young women from his slavers (which cut down on his income to hire hoods and bribe politicians), and busted him for tax evasion. It was the least of his crimes, but was one that Lenwood Small and local judges and prosecutors had no jurisdiction over. My family was involved in the fight against Capone, as was the family of one of my friends who is now a prominent pro-life investigator.
Franklin Roosevelt (D) made friends with the corrupt Dem mayors and governors. He and J. Edgar Hoover were like-minded souls. They got rid of honest FBI leader Melvin Purvis, who was apprised of the corruption of the mayors by Georgette Winkeler, widow of Gus Winkeler, one of the German hoods from St. Louis who took part in the Valentines Day Massacre, which Capone ordered to take out rival Bugs Moran’s gang. They dressed as cops to fake out the rival hoods. She was angry at Capone for ordering the death of her husband, and went to Purvis, who was the fed who took down John Dilinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd, all in 1934. (Frank Hamer of the Texas Rangers led the crew who ventilated Bonnie and Clyde in Louisiana in 1934.) Her story “A Voice from the Grave” is available as “Al Capone and His American Boys.” Frank Helmer, a veteran crime writer, was given the heads up on the existence of Georgette’s manuscript in the 1980s by an FBI archivist after President Reagan (an Illinois native) declassified a lot of records. FDR’s people had suppressed the manuscript and destroyed her affidavits. I think you can download the book for free using https://muse.jhu.edu/book/12784
I did so 15 years ago.
Ad Rem, please kill my “awaiting approval” posts. I see where I violated protocol.
Thanks!
Continued:
Lyndon Johnson was in on the murder of John Kennedy. He and the FBI and the CIA benefited by the murder. He was a whore monger and brought whore mongers like Jack Valenti into government. LBJ was also in on the hits of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the father of RFK Jr, and the kid brother of John Kennedy (JFK). LBJ’s fixer Abe Fortas helped him steal the Dem Senate nomination in Texas in 1948 — and LBJ made him a Supreme Court justice. Fortas resigned in disgrace during Nixon’s first term instead of risking conviction and prison on a bribery scandal.
In my opinion, Justice Roberts is the target of blackmail due to his handling of adooption of children. He reportedly got action from girls enslaved by Epstein or those enslaved by others with dens in the Beltway who pimped for both parties’ politicians. J Edgar Hoover was a blackmail target because he was a deviate.
The worst corruptocrats have tended to be Democrats. I met legendary tax fighter Howard Jarvis in California and heard him speak. He explained that back in the day, most Republican candidates were business owners, or successful licensed professionals like doctors, lawyers, and engineers. They viewed public office as a step down in authority and dignity. On the other hand, he said, most Dem candidates were teachers, union officials, and bottom-of-the barrel lawyers, who viewed public office as a promotion to wealth and power. He said this made the Dems fight harder by any means to be public officials.
Believe it or not, many of the original union men like Terence Powderly were Republicans. William McKinley, the GOP president whose murder made it possible for Teddy Roosevelt to become president, did union cases for free.
Honest Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, both Republicans, advanced the cause of labor with their power. The Donald is doing likewise.
We’re glad to have immigrants like you.
The NYT published a detailed piece about Robert’s adoption of two Irish children. It was archived for years so I never bothered to print it out. It has been taken down. Maybe someone out there has it, or has ninja skills and can recover it. Quite a read.
Tulsi could find it, Trump could declassify it and we could remove a major component of the Left’s plan to destroy America.
A long read but well worth all the truth bombs (defined by the “media” as dis, mal or mis information).
There’s a place here in America for Patrick but it’s gotta be hard watching the country you love be destroyed.
We are only 2 weeks away from the same destruction…..but we still have the powder box and it is FULL and DRY!!
22% of Republicans voted in Delaware’s primary with Katz versus Shulli. Is that pitiful or what?!!!!!!
I voted for Shulli cuz Katz is RINO for sure since he got all the funding from the Mother Rino RNC.
Katz won so I will hold my breath and vote for him because ANYTHING is better then COONS the lying bastard of the J6 committee.
Democrats Judges are preventing that from happening . Don’t forget we’ve had both houses since Trumps 2nd term started and fraud is still rampant.
I want to hear the name of one head of a gov’t program who has been arrested and is in jail for enabling, allowing, promoting or facilitating any of the billions of dollars in fraud that’s been going on for years and years.
Surely, if the people at the bottom of this mess can’t even spell “learning”, the people connecting the the top to the bottom can’t be too competant.
Let’s see some arrests and sentencing.
America.gov/fraud
Start with Walz and Klobuchar and their cronies (sp).
You can’t allow 3rd world, illegal aliens into a 1st world country and remain a 1st world country. Either the 1st world culture will raise up the 3rd world culture, or the 3rd world culture will drag down the 1st world culture. Which do you see going on today? No amount of lying and deception by the MSM or politicians will change what you see.
President Trump is right when he says a nation that doesn’t control its borders doesn’t have control of its security. Immigration IS a national security issue. No one can be honest about what is happening in France and deny this.
Race realism. The importance of the correct ratio.
Politically, still the untouchable rail. Can’t fix a problem not honestly defined.
Ahh…but that would be politically incorrect.
That was the tripwire that the left set back in the 50’s to make sure no one was allowed to point out the facts.
Even here, I’ve seen posters chastised for speaking simple truths.
Now the truths are coming home to roost whether they like it or not.
Nobody wants to talk about IQ. They think I’m talking about people who are just bad at math or something. They imagine that foreigner would be just like them if they grew up the same way in the same environment. The blank slate fallacy.
The 3rd world is not a place it’s people.
It’s hit you on your head with a falling piano obvious yet almost everybody afraid to have an honest conversation or are in complete denial.
Tremendously frustrating and deadly.
Just like during ‘Covid’.
Full spectrum adult human agency goes missing. Anyone with courage is viciously attacked. It’s a very real and perhaps even existential for humanity phenomenon. Vast scholarship of the highest credibility tells us that the battle between Good and Evil is 100% an unavoidable human experience.
We happen to live during the apex of a transition from an old time and into a ‘new’ time.
In less than a decade, today will be a history lesson taught as the history of WW3.
Never forget De Nile is a river in Ethopoia
To me it is all about assimilation. Immigrants who come here with the desire to become a part of our society and be like us should be welcomed with open arms. These were our ancestors in days gone by. The ones who come here to force us to become like them are not immigrants, they are colonizers and should never be granted admitance.
“These were our ancestors in days gone by”
Well, that’s one opinion.
Hang on – were there white Europeans in America before the Scandinavians, Irish Monks and Christopher Columbus discovered it
I wonder if anyone is watching the northern border.
And yet it must be native marxists who facilitate this.
Does any one believe an illiterate non English speaking jihadist from Ethiopia is capable of filling out all the forms required to get on the benefits gravrey train.
The NGO’s are too busy raking in their cut.
Nick Shirley in the Oval! Awesome
Say Nick there must be due some loot right? I guess he could just go get some more fraud if that’s how it works.
I think it would be beneficial for him to be a government employee but then it might hamper how he gets things done. Don’t know the guys name who is standing by him, but they work together.
Excellent presser.
I don’t know how he does it. He carries out his daily duties as President, does the pressers, and tops it off with a flight to a rally, and all while remaining very entertaining. A pleasure to watch.
Sad to see him getting off the helicopter so late at night. He looks just worn out and I’m sure he is, but he is out there being a president in just a few hours.
President Trump was asked about someone named Stephen Hubbard, a person held in Russia, and his possibly pending release.
This is what popped up . . .
Stephen Hubbard is a 74‑year‑old retired American schoolteacher from Big Rapids, Michigan, who has been held in Russia since 2022 on charges of being a mercenary for the Ukraine.
In October 2024, a Moscow court convicted him in a closed trial of being a mercenary and sentenced him to six years and 10 months in prison.
Prosecutors alleged he joined a Ukrainian territorial defense unit, received training, weapons, and ammunition, and was promised $1,000 a month.
Hubbard and his lawyer have said Russian soldiers “grabbed” him from his home.
In January 2025, the U.S. State Department designated Hubbard as “wrongfully detained”, enabling negotiations for his release.
President Trump has said he has “spoken to President Putin at length” and is pressing for Hubbard’s release, calling it “time to have Mr. Hubbard back”.
“U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is also engaged in talks with Putin, with reports that negotiations may include Hubbard’s release as part of broader Ukraine peace discussions.”
By all available indications, it looks like Russia and the United States are working toward Mr Hubbard’s release.
Given his age and the fact that he’s been in custody since 2022, it would be a humane gesture of good will to release Mr Hubbard and return him to the United States.
Praying all goes well.
0.o
The President Putin meeting with Steve Witkoff is live now on the NDTV World yt channel which I linked on the Presidential Topic page.
President Putin has agreed to the release of Stephen Hubbard.
Stephen Hubbard’s son is a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
President Putin and Steve Witkoff are discussing numerous other subjects including the conflict in the Ukraine and the Diesel Fuel and Fertilizer Agreements.
0.o
Thank you for this post.
You are most welcome.
0.o
80 year old man sleeps very little, works every day, starts off the morning combing his hair, dresses sharply, then goes about managing the Executive branch of government. Probably has breakfast with his beautiful wife who tells him what she thinks on every question he asks her…and yet he still has time to do political rallies while also entering a bull ring with reporters who want to gore him with witty gotcha questions
What’s not to like about this guy’s determined energies? He may not be perfect, but every day he works for the United States citizens as best he can!
To your point this post has a great quote about the President we love.
https://x.com/thepatriotoasis/status/2112243902807720330
“Trump rallygoer in Kansas is about to go VIRAL with the line he just dropped:
MAN: “Trump’s like my wife. There’s some days I like him better than others, but there’s not any day that I don’t love him!”
I just wish he’d slow roll his urge to gild things, but other than that, the right man at the right time.
congratulations Nick shirley,
Richard Petty!
WOW
0.o
For a moment, I thought Nick Sorter was Barron. I could’t place him. President Trump gave Nick great honor by including him. And Nick dressed for the occasion :).
I think America and the world deserves a fourth term from President Trump. To cure it’s insanity.
2028 matters.
nick Shirley is in the oval: office! What is he doing there! Something is really off about this administration.
👎
?
0.o
This proves that democrats want to raise taxes.
Are you talking about the……
“Donald J. Trump Federal Fraud Taskforce”……????
If you all will indudge my skeptical nature for a moment, I’m going to hold off getting too confident that much if any of this fraud will be addressed.
When I see a reduction in my tax bill I will return to this forum and offer a recantation of my skepticism.
Fraud is happening in Federal, State, local, and other quasi-government organizations, contractors, employees, and individual beneficiaries of government contracts, grants, and purchases.
It’s become the nature of the beast.
I started my audit experience on GAO’s 1st fraud task force back in 1980.
There are huge numbers of organizations and individuals who are nursing on the public boob.
The system is full of holes from top to bottom.
I know this because I spent almost 30 years working as a federal auditor.
My work took me to all levels of government–federal, state, local.
It took me to contractors and grantees.
I worked up on Capitol Hill and saw what happened behind closed doors.
Big donors expect their cut in the form of contracts, grants, etc. This happens at all levels of government.
Too many people have their hands in the till.
When will our country’s Congress enact a federal law banning socialists and communists and anyone that voices hate for our country from running for an office. We give those who hate our country too much latitude and the common citizen who has been uneducated for the past 30 years doesn’t know any better.